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State GOP Chairman Doyle Webb denounced the writings of all three men as “highly offensive” and said the party would no longer financially support their campaigns on Saturday, the AP reports. On Monday Tim Griffin, who represents Arkansas’ 2nd District in the U.S. House of Representatives, demanded Mauch, Hubbard and Fuqua donate his contributions to charity instead. A fellow Arkansas Republican, Rep. Rick Crawford, called the writings “divisive and racially inflammatory.”

Jay Barth, a political science professor at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., told Reuters that these lawmakers’ comments on race are a setback to the progress Arkansas has made since the 1960s. But the fact that not just Hubbard, but two other lawmakers also made racially charged remarks, makes Republicans look particularly bad.

With so much bad press over the race issue, the GOP is actually cutting bait on three of their men running in elections this term.

My question is this....

Will it help the party or hurt it at this point? Is it too late to matter?

We're gonna sit down and have ourselves a drink! And after we're done - after *I'm* done, you can run upstairs and take whichever one of them little pills makes you feel the best~Dolores Claiborne

It depends on how much those campaigns are dependent on state party funds and how close the races are. My guess is the people there are sufficiently barbaric they'll elect these losers anyway.

"Thirty-one* states allow all qualified citizens to carry concealed weapons. In those states, homosexuals should embark on organized efforts to become comfortable with guns, learn to use them safely and carry them. They should set up Pink Pistols task forces, sponsor shooting courses and help homosexuals get licensed to carry. And they should do it in a way that gets as much publicity as possible. "